Introduction Hospital-based nurses and midwives play a pivotal role in promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding. However, variation in preservice education, in-service training and institutional policies contributes to inconsistent breastfeeding support across healthcare systems. Given the global push toward improving breastfeeding outcomes and the centrality of skilled nursing support, this scoping review protocol aims to systematically map the breadth, characteristics and reported outcomes of breastfeeding education and training initiatives targeting hospital-based nurses and midwives. Methods and analysis This scoping review will be conducted in accordance with the methodological framework developed by Arksey and O’Malley and advanced by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). A systematic search will be conducted across major databases including OVID Medline, CINAHL, Scopus and Web of Science, as well as grey literature sources. Studies will be selected using the Population–Concept–Context (PCC) framework, focusing on breastfeeding-related education and training interventions designed for nurses and midwives in hospital settings. Two independent reviewers will screen all titles, abstracts and full texts, extract data using a standardised tool and resolve discrepancies via discussion or third-party consultation. The extracted data will be analysed using descriptive statistics and thematic synthesis to identify trends, gaps and directions for future research. The literature search will be conducted between August and October 2025. Ethics and dissemination This scoping review involves the analysis of existing literature and does not require ethical approval. The findings will be reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines. Results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publication and presentations at nursing and maternal–child health conferences to inform educators, hospital administrators and policy makers involved in breastfeeding support and clinical education.

The outbreak of COVID-19 poses an immense global threat. Visitors to hospitalized patients during a pandemic might themselves be carriers, and so hospitals strictly control patients and inpatient companions. However, it is not easy for cancer patients to adjust the times of their medical treatment or to suspend treatment, and the impact of the pandemic on cancer inpatients and inpatient companions is relatively high. The objectives for this investigation are to study the correlations among emotional stress, pain, and the presence of inpatient companions in cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was a retrospective descriptive study. The participants were cancer inpatients and inpatient companions in a medical center in Taiwan. The data for this study were extracted from cross-platform structured and normalized electronic medical record databases. Microsoft Excel 2016 and SPSS version 22.0 were used for analysis of the data. In all, 75.15% of the cancer inpatients were accompanied by family, and the number of hospitalization days were 7.87 ± 10.77 days, decreasing year by year, with statistical significance of p < 0.001. The daily nursing hours were 12.94 ± 10.76, and the nursing hours decreased year by year, p < 0.001. There was no significant difference in gender among those who accompanied the patients, but there were statistical differences in the length of hospitalization, nursing hours, and pain scores between those with and without inpatient companions, with p < 0.001. The inpatient companions were mostly family members (78%). The findings of this study on cancer patient care and inpatient companions should serve as an important basis for the transformation and reform of the inpatient companion culture and for epidemic prevention care in hospitals.